摘要:
The electroabsorption modulator comprises a p-i-n junction structure that includes an active layer, a p-type cladding layer and an n-type cladding layer with the active layer sandwiched between the cladding layers. The electroabsorption modulator additionally comprises a quantum well structure located within the active layer. The p-type cladding layer comprises a layer of heavily-doped low-diffusivity p-type semiconductor material located adjacent the active layer that reduces the extension of the depletion region into the p-type cladding layer when a reverse bias is applied to the electroabsorption modulator. The reduced extension increases the strength of the electric field applied to the quantum well structure by a given reverse bias voltage. The increased field strength increases the extinction ratio of the electroabsorption modulator.
摘要:
The invention provides a laser structure that operates at a wavelength of 1.3 &mgr;m and at elevated temperatures and a method of making same. The laser structure includes a quantum well layer of InAsP. The quantum well layer is sandwiched between a first barrier layer and a second barrier layer. Each barrier layer exhibits a higher bandgap energy than the quantum well layer. Also, each barrier layer comprises Gax(AlIn)1−xP in which x 0. This material has a higher bandgap energy than conventional barrier layer materials, such as InGaP. The resulting larger conduction band discontinuity leads to improved high temperature performance without increasing the threshold current of the laser structure.
摘要:
The active region of a long-wavelength light emitting device is made by providing an organometallic vapor phase epitaxy (OMVPE) reactor, placing a substrate wafer capable of supporting growth of indium gallium arsenide nitride in the reactor, supplying a Group III–V precursor mixture comprising an arsenic precursor, a nitrogen precursor, a gallium precursor, an indium precursor and a carrier gas to the reactor and pressurizing the reactor to a sub-atmospheric elevated growth pressure no higher than that at which a layer of indium gallium arsenide layer having a nitrogen fraction commensurate with light emission at a wavelength longer than 1.2 μm is deposited over the substrate wafer.
摘要:
The long-wavelength photonic device comprises an active region that includes at least one quantum-well layer of a quantum-well layer material that comprises InyGa1-yAsSb in which y≧0, and that additionally includes a corresponding number of barrier layers each of a barrier layer material that includes gallium and phosphorus. The barrier layer material has a conduction-band energy level greater than the conduction-band energy level of the quantum-well layer material and has a valence-band energy level less than the valence-band energy level of the quantum-well layer material.
摘要翻译:长波长光子器件包括有源区,该有源区包括至少一个量子阱层材料的量子阱层,该量子阱层材料包括其中y> = 0的In y Ga 1-y As Sb,并且另外包括相应数量的势垒层 包括镓和磷的阻挡层材料。 阻挡层材料的导带能级大于量子阱层材料的导带能级,并且具有小于量子阱层材料的价带能级的价带能级。
摘要:
Double well structures in electro-absorption modulators are created in quantum well active regions by embedding deep ultra thin quantum wells. The perturbation introduced by the embedded, deep ultra thin quantum well centered within a conventional quantum well lowers the confined energy state for the wavefunction in the surrounding larger well and typically results in the hole and electron distributions being more confined to the center of the conventional quantum well. The extinction ratio provided by the electro-absorption modulator is typically increased.
摘要:
Subwells are added to quantum wells of light emitting semiconductor structures to shift their emission wavelengths to longer wavelengths. Typical applications of the invention are to InGaAs, InGaAsSb, InP and GaN material systems, for example.
摘要:
Several methods for producing an active region for a long wavelength light emitting device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises placing a substrate in an organometallic vapor phase epitaxy (OMVPE) reactor, the substrate for supporting growth of an indium gallium arsenide nitride (InGaAsN) film, supplying to the reactor a group-III-V precursor mixture comprising arsine, dimethylhydrazine, alkyl-gallium, alkyl-indium and a carrier gas, where the arsine and the dimethylhydrazine are the group-V precursor materials and where the percentage of dimethylhydrazine substantially exceeds the percentage of arsine, and pressurizing the reactor to a pressure at which a concentration of nitrogen commensurate with light emission at a wavelength longer than 1.2 um is extracted from the dimethylhydrazine and deposited on the substrate.
摘要:
A method of supporting a plurality of planar substrates in a tube shaped furnace for conducting a thermal treatment process is disclosed. The method uses a boat fixture having a base frame including two length portions and a first width portion, a second width portion, and one or more middle members connected between the two length portions. Additionally, the method includes mounting a removable first grooved rod respectively on the first width portion, the second width portion, and each of the one or more middle members, each first grooved rod having a first plurality of grooves characterized by a first spatial configuration. The method further includes inserting one or two substrates of a plurality of planar substrates into each groove in the boat fixture separated by a distance.
摘要:
A high efficiency thin-film photovoltaic module is formed on a substrate. The photovoltaic module includes a plurality of stripe shaped photovoltaic cells electrically coupled to each other and physically disposed in parallel to the length one next to another across the width. Each cell includes a barrier material overlying the surface and a first electrode overlying the barrier material. Each cell further includes an absorber formed overlying the first electrode. The absorber includes a copper gallium indium diselenide compound material characterized by an energy band-gap of about 1 eV to 1.1 eV. Each cell additionally includes a buffer material overlying the absorber and a bi-layer zinc oxide material comprising a high resistivity transparent layer overlying the buffer material and a low resistivity transparent layer overlying the high resistivity transparent layer.
摘要:
A thin-film photovoltaic devices includes transparent conductive oxide which has embedded within it nanowires at less than 2% nominal shadowing area. The nanowires enhance the electrical conductivity of the conductive oxide.